Lapel-button.



Patehted Mar. l3, I900.

.L H C E U R B R M m 5 4 6 0 N LAPEL BUTTON. (Applicahion filed July 13, 1899.)

(No Model.)

INVENT u R.

ATTYs u WASHINGYON n c NITE TATES MAX R. BRUEQHE, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO SILAS SWARTZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LAPEL-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 645,501, dated March 13, 1900.

I Application filed July 13 1899- Serial No. 723,643. (No model) To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX R. BRUEOHE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bloomfield, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lapel-Buttons, of which the following is aspecification.

Myinvention relates to lapel buttons or pins of the kind usually used for campaign-badges or for advertising or ornamental purposes.

The object of my invention is to furnish such a button or pin that will permit of the same being readily attached to and detached from the garment and when so attached to be retained thereon and which can bemade much more reasonably than those now in use.

My invention-consists, essentially, of such a button or pin provided upon its back with teeth on opposite sides of and setting out from the same and pointing toward each other. My

invention also consists of said teeth forming part of a flanged ring which sets out from the .back. My invention also consists in certain other features and details, as more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a back View of abutton or pin made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a back View of another form of button to that shown in'the receding fi ures and Fi 4 is a crosssection of the same.

Similar letters represent like parts in all the figures.

. Ais the body of the button, which is in the form of a disk, and B is a flangedring, the flanged edgeb of which incloses and is secured to said body A. The ring B is provided with two teeth or spurs c c on opposite sides extending towardeachother and which set out a little from the back of the body A.

D is a flanged ring,which surrounds the edge of the ring'B and retains both the ringB and the body A, the flat portion clof the said ring D overlapping the front of the body A. The

teeth 0 c are out out of the back portion of the ring B (which is the extreme back part of the button) and are virtually on the same plane as said back portion. These teeth catch and bite the cloth of the garment between them, there being room for the cloth between ton having an ordinary pin, and my improved button willhold upon the garment as securely .as is needed. The teeth. 0 a being cut out of the same piece of metal-as the ring B renders the button much-less expensive than if provided with a pin for attachment to the garment. 1

In the. construction shown in Figs..3 and 4 h the body E and ring'F are struck up from the same piece of metal, so as to leave an annu lar recess f between said body and ring, an the flanged edge I) of the ring Bis inclosed and held in said annular recess f of the ring F.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,'is-- 1. Alapel or-ornamental button consisting of a body, a flanged. ring secured thereto, and

said ring provided with teeth on opposite sides setting out from the back of the' body and pointing toward each other, as and for the purposes set forth. 1 v

2. A lapel or ornamental button, consisting of a body, a flanged ring inclosing said body and secured thereto, and said ring provided with teeth on opposite'sides setting out from the back of the body and pointing toward each other, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. Alapel or ornamental button consisting of a disk-shaped body a flanged ringsecured thereto, and said ring provided with teeth On opposite sides setting out from the backof the body andpointing toward each other, as

and for thepurposes set forth.

4. A lapel or ornamentalbutton, consisting of a body, a flanged ring inclosing said body and secured thereto, and said ring provided with teeth on opposite sides setting out from the-back of the body and pointing toward each other and I another ring surrounding and retaining therein the toothed ring, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I vhave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. MAX R. BRUEOHE.

Witnesses: v

PENNINGTON' HALs'rED, EDWIN SEGER. 

